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Comparison Of Excellent Adventure, Memento, And The Birds

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Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Memento, and The Birds. These are just three examples of upcoming reboots that intend to make a quick buck at the box office.

Nothing causes more drama among the movie community than the announcement of a reboot or remake. I don't find remakes particularly exciting, especially if the reboot is of a franchise that doesn't warrant it. But sometimes it's difficult to ignore a remake, especially if it concerns an old movie that I particularly like.

One of my favourite films is RoboCop, so as you can imagine, I was furious when I learnt of the proposed reboot. I knew it would be awful, and any hope I had for it being decent quickly faded once I had cast my eye upon the rubber robo-suit for the first time.

As release date finally arrived, I made myself go and …show more content…

It didn't flop at the box office, but it was nowhere near as good. Yes, the special effects were better in the remake, but I'd rather "Get my ass to Mars" with Arnie in the 1990 version than sit through a pointless remake that tries to ride the coattails of the superior first film.

Total Recall
Arnie didn't enjoy sitting through Total Recall 2012
Both RoboCop and Total Recall were remade around 20 years after their original releases. More recently, the Spider-Man series was rebooted in 2012. I still don't understand the decision to reboot it, and what's more, The Amazing Spider-Man was no better than the 2002 original.

I understand changing the cast, I wasn't a really a fan of Tobey Maguire; but I assumed it would have been acceptable to make a fourth in the series, instead of retelling the story only five years after the initial release of Sami Raimi's trilogy in 2007.

Other disappointing reboots and remakes include The Italian Job, Clash of the Titans, Godzilla, The Invasion, Rollerball, Psycho, Terminator Genisys... The list goes

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